Question

i’ve already read all topics here and on google about redirection but i’m a programmer and i cant get it going.

I have Apache 2.2 installed. The web root is C:\Apache\htdocs. My network admin set me up a local domain that points to the server with Apache. The domain is myPhpApp.ourcompany.local. And this subdomain works, it shows the Apache “It works” page.

Now i have a website in C:\Apache\htdocs\myPhpApp and i want Apache to redirect the myPhpApp.ourcompany.local to this directory. The URLs should stay while browsing the website always as myPhpApp.ourcompany.local for example: myPhpApp.ourcompany.local/index.php, myPhpApp.ourcompany.local/data.php and so on.

I dont know how to achieve this? Mod-rewrite, virtual hosts, combination of both?
i have got this and this does not work:

<VirtualHost myphpapp.ourcompany.local>
DocumentRoot /myphpapp/
ServerName www.example1.com

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule   ^/$  /myphpapp/  [R]

</VirtualHost>

In effect i get:

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access
/myphpapp/ on this server.
Can anyone help?

EDIT
Maybe i forgot to mention: i dont put this into the www root which is C:/Apache/htdocs becuase i have more apps in there.
i have 3 directories in thdocs: myphpapp, myoldapp, mytestapp. As a target i want to have 3 subdomains that point to each directory.

Answer 1

I think it will be a combination of Nikola’s and cromestant’s answers:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/Apache/htdocs/myPhpApp"
    ServerName myPhpApp.ourcompany.local
</VirtualHost>